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Fewer Americans shopped during Thanksgiving weekend than they did last year, but more of them did so in person, data released Tuesday shows.

More U.S. adults who do not already have children are saying they are unlikely to ever have them, a new Pew Research Center survey finds - findings that could draw renewed attention to the risks of declining birthrates for industrialized nations.

COVID-19 is far from the only danger of the worldwide pandemic for Asian Americans and Asian people in the United States, a sociologist said at the Diversity Forum held by the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison).

WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats this week are preparing to propose a new tax increase that would raise billions of dollars from a handful of the richest Americans, attempting to create perhaps the most narrowly focused tax policy in postwar history.

The number of Americans filing initial unemployment claims fell below 300,000 for the first time since the pandemic began, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized a Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus booster shot for people 65 and older and adults at risk of severe illness, an effort to bolster protection for the most vulnerable Americans against the highly transmissible delta variant of the virus.

The 1918 flu killed an estimated 675,000 Americans. It was considered Americas most lethal pandemic in recent history up until now.

COVID-19 deaths and cases in the United States have climbed to levels not seen since last winter, wiping out months of progress and potentially bolstering President Bidens argument for sweeping new vaccination requirements, media reported.

They had signed up to do their part, to heal a country - their own - that had not known a moment of peace in their entire lives. Rylee McCollum wanted to become a history teacher, but only after doing what he could as a Marine to serve his country. Hunter Lopez knew this was what he wanted since he was 11 years old. Ryan Knauss knew it in second grade.

"Today Im calling on more companies in the private sector to step up with vaccine requirements that will reach millions more people," President Joe Biden said.

President Joe Biden said Wednesday in an interview with ABC News George Stephanopoulos that U.S. troops will stay in Afghanistan beyond Aug. 31 if necessary to evacuate any remaining Americans who wish to leave the country.

"Given the security conditions and reduced staffing, the Embassys ability to assist U.S. citizens in Afghanistan is extremely limited even within Kabul," the U.S. Embassy in Kabul said.